C[omp]ute

From: andrew cooke <andrew@...>

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 07:58:01 -0300

Emails and URLs are complex.  There are several RFCs (standards documents)
that describe how they should be formatted, and one (RFC 3696 that describes
how best to validate them - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3696.html )

I wrote a validator using the Lepl Python library that checks emails and URLs.
It's very easy to use.

First, install Lepl:

  easy_install lepl

Next, use it in your Python code:

  from lepl.apps.rfc3696 import Email

  assert Email('andrew@...')
  assert not Email('not an email at all!')

As you can see, Email(...) returns true when the value is a valid email, and
false when not.

The documentation is here:
  All of Lepl: http://www.acooke.org/lepl/
  This library: http://www.acooke.org/lepl/rfc3696.html

Andrew